Had to reply here. I initially bought this game after waiting for so long. Started the game getting bugged out in the first mission of the game from the jail doors and realising only after an hour that another bug stopped me from getting my ally. 8.99e for a game with such a long development and so many bugs still unfixed. I was ready to wait it out but then I heard the incomplete story with only 3 classes. And now a premium game changed into a episodic game whilst not telling anyone. I don't know what these devs are thinking. I've now made a refund and I'll never support these devs again.. Asking for a premium price and only after a week decides that episodic is the way to go is just absurd. All these management and decision issues should have been sorted out long before you release a game. And an unfinished game some more. This is literally how you destroy yourselves, congrats.
Glad to see Carter do the follow up in the game to point out what has gone down. And it'll be interesting to see if a Kobojo rep ever shows up here again. My bets are on no. Just sad all around. And the fact that it was an Editor's Choice probably enabled them to get a lot more buyers to dupe. I know it probably wasn't entirely intentional, but the game should have never been released in the state it was. And even as episodic, it still felt like much of the game was unfinished, like the classes. The sudden "coming soon" ending also was not appropriate even for an episodic game.
I felt the same as you at first I was going to refund and repurchase because I was mad at the lack of content and classes available but once they said IAP episodes screw them. I never refunded on anything after three years but this is the first. My star ranking to 1 after the IAP episode remark
Ended up getting CR 3 despite the iOS 9 issues after reading that you can work around it using airplane mode. Soooo good so far (and so satisfying after this mess). Seems quite different than the other CR games other than in name. More of a FF vibe. Thanks for making me consider it even if I hadn't played through the others.
I'm surprised you only heard of it right now. Be sure to check out the CR3 thread if you want tips. I've been saying on this forum pretty often that CR3 is the best mobile made RPG. There's really no contest.
Oh, no. I've known about it. Just had never gotten around to picking it up. I actually have the first Chaos Rings and Omega in my backlog. I played about half of the first game before an iOS update killed it and still haven't gotten back to it. Had heard lots of good things about CR 3. I just didn't realize it was not really connected to the other games so I had been holding off on it. But nkx mentioned that the story was stand alone so I decided to use my refund from this to help buy it. Should be going through that backlog to play the others, but I'm too compulsive and continue to buy more! There's no hope for me.
wow do i feel like an idiot for buying this now!! have only ever asked for a refund once b4 for crimson gem saga because you couldnt save, utterly disappointed in the dev and wish i'd held out for another day, the prison level just lacks any enjoyment, what a shame, i should have listened better to everyone and never bought it in the 1st place!!
Chaos Rings 3 looks good but I read people were having problems downloading episodes/chapters afterwards on iOS9. Did you run into any problems by chance?
OK, For the first time in my life I'm going for a refund This is one of the worst (if not the worst) experience with a game so far
Horrid game, I can't believe these developers deceived us all. It is despicable. They should be ashamed of themselves and....and from this incident alone, their game developing career in iOS might just be over. I know I will never trust or buy a kobojo game ever again. Refund
I haven't had any trouble so far, but haven't reached the part where you have to download the next chapter. That said I haven't even had the issue on iOS 9 that most seem to have with loading a save file. Works fine for me even when not in airplane mode.
I just hope the people who worked in the game art department got paid for their awesome work - preferably with the salaries of the people of the marketing and quality control departments, who should be fired with a "wth were you thinking - note", so they can get hired by some serious developers and bring us a quality game with this quality of art.
Just had to LOL at the first post in the thread. Not that jscro had any reason to think otherwise at that point.
I'm sure there were some people above marketing and quality control that pushed this game through and told them what to do. I can't blame people who just do what they're told. Sometimes I have to put out videos I'd like to do more to, but am just told to get them out.
Oh well, kobojo, you lost a bunch of customers and probably thousands of dollars if not more. I have it on my wish list, so when they make it free to play, which they will soon, I'll try it then.
Don't know why but I keep checking here expecting to see some sort of response from Kobojo. Certainly Carter's story has dealt a huge blow to their plans. And they initially said they were going to pay close attention to this thread for feedback. You'd think they would want to at least try to do some damage control. I guess not.
